There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.